BLUE-SKY THINKING
May 3-27, 2019 atThe Delaware Contemporary
an exhibit all about birds: mixed media work by
Caroline Coolidge Brown and photographs by Scott Allan McClurg
blue-sky thinking
The dawn chorus begins and sunlight brightens my room. The blue sky calls my name.
Birds display an incredible variety of color, shape and size. They are a joy to study, in the park or in my studio. My birding friends have introduced me to the delight of birdwatching and I have started to study their different patterns in plumage, flight and voice. Lately I’ve been lucky to play hide and seek with beautiful birds along the coast in Delaware and in the rainforests of Costa Rica.
Through layers of collage and rhythmic organic shapes, I invite the vitality of the natural world to my canvas. I can feel the wind in grasses and the flapping of wings. Added collage allows me to exaggerate the birds’ colorful markings. I find special bits of paper and text to glue into an imagined story of each piece.
Caroline Coolidge Brown is happy to be a new studio artist at the Delaware Contemporary, working upstairs in 2Q. A painter, printmaker, visual journaler, and urban sketcher, she teaches at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington and at General Theological Seminary in New York. She has studied art at Duke University, Penland School of Crafts and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking.
https://www.decontemporary.org/blue-sky-thinking
The dawn chorus begins and sunlight brightens my room. The blue sky calls my name.
Birds display an incredible variety of color, shape and size. They are a joy to study, in the park or in my studio. My birding friends have introduced me to the delight of birdwatching and I have started to study their different patterns in plumage, flight and voice. Lately I’ve been lucky to play hide and seek with beautiful birds along the coast in Delaware and in the rainforests of Costa Rica.
Through layers of collage and rhythmic organic shapes, I invite the vitality of the natural world to my canvas. I can feel the wind in grasses and the flapping of wings. Added collage allows me to exaggerate the birds’ colorful markings. I find special bits of paper and text to glue into an imagined story of each piece.
Caroline Coolidge Brown is happy to be a new studio artist at the Delaware Contemporary, working upstairs in 2Q. A painter, printmaker, visual journaler, and urban sketcher, she teaches at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington and at General Theological Seminary in New York. She has studied art at Duke University, Penland School of Crafts and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking.
https://www.decontemporary.org/blue-sky-thinking
